Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and 15 minutes of singing, she was back in her dressing room. She rested for half an hour, then downed a 1-lb. sirloin and a glass of champagne, while her hairdresser built up her pompadour for Cosi. After an hour's nap, she changed into hoop skirts, and adjusted her mind from the tragic 15th century Desdemona to the gaily artificial 18th century Fiordiligi. That done, she went to the piano, vocalized on scales for ten minutes, sang a few warm-up bars from Cosi. By curtain time at 8:15, she was ready...
...Eagles led for the first quarter and part of the second, mainly because they were having success in their set shots from outside the Crimson's zone defense. Suddenly the Crimson solved one of the game's elementary problems --how to put the ball through the hoop--and began to catch up fast...
...Maxine Elliott Theater, where he won the audition for a role in this week's CBS show Danger. Thursday, dressed as a cowboy, he posed for a photograph scheduled to appear in Look magazine. Friday, he turned artisan and spent the day soldering together metal frames for hoop skirts that will be worn by the Rockettes of Radio City's Music Hall in their Christmas show...
Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...
Previously, only petty stealings such as ash trays, hoop races, and grass skirts have been reported. If the owl is not returned however, Wellesley threatens to hold no more mixers. It may even cancel teas. All it wants to know, obviously...